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INCO TRIANGLE December -$_ ( - { VOLUME 13 COPPER CLIFF, ONTARIO. I)E('EMIER, 1953 NUMBER 9 Accent on Youth (STORY ON PAGE 14) Page 2 !NC() UR!A', (;LF; 1953 How to be Popular at Home l'ublished for all employees of The Inter- natIonal NIckel Company of Canada, Limited. Don M. Dunbar, Editor IIflTOHI.tL OFFUF, CoPPER CLIFF, ONT, Superstitions and Folklore of Miners By FRANK A. KING Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, EngLind (Canadian Mining Journal) As might be expected, miners who worked in the depths of the earth developed their own superstitions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and some of these traditions remained until even recent years. They considered themselves warned off a level if they met a black cat in it, and would not go there again until the animal had been driven out. Perhaps the miners had an idea that the black cat they encountered was a metamorphised dwarf, or even a witch. Before the day was half over this quartet of nimrods had bagged 15 b!g partridge on Kobolds, "about the height of a child four a hunting trip just west of Creighton Mine. Left tø right are Elf o DiFiilippo, GatcheH; years old," dwelt in German mines, imitating Nick Pezetta, Creighton; Ferucio Favretto, Copper Cliff, and Red DiFWIppo, Creighton. the labours of the miners and frustrating They must be good! their ezideavours. These gnomes were only heard when trouble was near. The "duergars" and consequently these gnomes did not work People ... will laugh at us Cardiganshire of Scandinavian folklore resemble the kobolds on Christmas Day. Easter Day and on All miners, who maintain the existence of but they are coarser and less propitious to Saints' Day, and were compelled to gather I Knockers in the mines- a kind of good- human beings. According to Grimm, the in the deep levels of the mines to sing carols natured impalpable people, but to be seen at Christmas. and heard, and who seem to Us to work In Although the knockers were supposed to be the mines; that Is to say, they are types or very playful amongst themselves, they be- forerunners of workers in the mines, as came very shy as soon as they knew they dreams are of some accidents which happen were being watched. English miners con- to us. I must speak well of these Knockers, sidered the knockers as friends, and thought for they actually stood my good friends, these gnomes did special service by leading whether they are aerial beings called spirits, them to valuable deposits, as the knockers 3 whether they are people made of matter were never heard working on other than rich not to be felt by our gross bodies. Before the ground. But the knockers could be very discovery of Efgair y Mwyn mine, these little vindictive if a miner happened to shout at people (as we call them here) worked hard them, or neglected to follow the ancient there day and night, and there are an abund- custom of leaving part of his dinner on the ance of honest sober people who heard them; ground for their enjoyment, but after the discovery of the great ore they In Cornwall, a miner named Tom Trevor- were heard no more. row heard the knockers near him, and im- 'When I iegan at Llwyn Llwyd they work- patiently told them to "be quiet and go," ed so fresh there for a censiderable time that when a shower of stones immediately fell on they even frightened some young workmen him. Soon after, when he was eating his out of the work, This was when we were dinner, a number of voices were heard drivmg levels and before we had got any ore; but when we came to the ore then they gave over, and I heard no more talk of them." "Tom Trevorrow! Tom Trevorrow! Morris also said about the knockers: Leave some of thy fuggan for bucca, Our old miners are n more ccncerned at Or bad luck to thee to-morrow!" hearing them blasting, boring, landing deads, etc., than if they were of their own peopre; Tom was unrepentant, so ate all he had and a single m'ñer will stay in the work In brought with him, which caused the knockers the dead of night, without any man near THE LITTLE PEOPLE to chant: him, and never think of any fear or harm kobold as not mentioned by any writer Tommy Trevorrow! Tommy Trevorrow! that they will do him; for they have a notion before the thirteenth century. We'll send thee bad luck tomorrow! that the Knockers are cf their own tribe or From remote time.s, these "little people' Thou old curmudgeon to eat all thy fuggan profession, and are a harmless people who were ,upposed to dwell in rocks or beneath And not to leave a didjan for bucca!" mean well. Three or four miners tcgether pools in almost every country of Europe. They i shall hear them sometimes; but if the mners exercised their skill 'is miners, thwarted the 1t is said that as a result of this incident. 3top to take notice of them, the Knockers will purpose of men, danced in the meadows, continuous ill..luck eventually forced Tom also stop; but let the miners go cn at their a,sisted houmaids and led men into pathless Trevorrow to leave the mines, work, uppose it to be boring, the Knockers woods. In England they were known as Bucca" was the name of a spirit in Corn- will go on as brisk as can be in landing, blast- knockers" and have been described as "little, wall that it was thought necessary to pro- ing, or beating down the loose; and they withered, dried-up creatures,' of the size of pitiate so fishermen would leave fish on the were always heard a little before they came children between twelve months and two sands for bucca, and in the harvest field at to the ore." years of age, with big, ugly heads faces like meal-times a piece of bread was thrown over C3mmentiug upon this letter, another con- old men, and ungainly limbs, the shoulder and a few drops of beer were tributor described traditions concerning the Some miners said these strange figures were spilled on the ground for him, to ensure good I Knockers of Cornwall, and said that they the spirits of people who had lived thousands fortune for the dcnor. i sometimes assumed hu'nan shape, though of years before, who though too good to be In 1754, Lewis Morris, a native of Anglesea, never speaking with mortals. He signed him- condemned to Hell, were not good enough writth to his brother, the Comptroller of self "Juvens,' and observed: for the joys of Heaven. Others thought the Customs of Holyhead, said, in a letter later i 'One example of such an appearance may knocker w€'re the spirits of iionChristian re-produced in the Gentleman's Magazine: Continued on Page 4 Deci'iiiber. IY5. IN(20 I'RIANULE l'age 3 We are happy to announce that the young people appear- - - ir.g on this page are among those whose betiavior has been reported satisfactory by the North Pole Detective Agency, ' and who will be receiving visits from Santa Claus this Christ- mna& (1) Mr. and Mrs. B. Londeau Levack Mine> with Trudy- Ann, 15 mos. (2) Mr. and Mrs. George Murphy (Creighton Mine) with David, 3 mos.; Brian, 3'/2; Sharron, 4'/2, and George Jr., 2. (3) Mr. and Mrs. Archie McKinnon (Frood- Stobie) with Brent and Grant, 6; Donald, 10, and Alan, 13. - / (4) Mr. and Mrs. Louis Louiseize (Copper Refinery) with Claude, 10; John Peter, 2; Migne, 8, and Gaetan, 13. (5) Mr. - and Mrs. Jim Twiss (Garson Mine) with Merilyn, 2 mos., and L........ Kathie, 2'2. (6) Mr. and Mrs. David Bell Port Colborne _________ with Lorna, 3'/2, and Drew, 8 mos. () Mr. and Mrs. Leo Ku- pinen (Copper Cliff Electrical) with Wendy, 5,and Diane, 3. 1 1:e 4 1\(() I'l.I,\\(1.l I)((ii1Ij(r, IJ53 Silperstitions and Suggestion Plan Partnership Folklore ol Miners 4Continued from Page 2) rve is an instance of many like storie - usunlly current among the C3rnish miners, In the populous parish of St. Just near the r Land's End> a man wa missed for several days; unsuccessful svarch had been made of - the old mines or tinpits, many of which 0 remain open since time immemorial. On the sixth or seventh day another miner was in search of a strayed animal, either here, or • bullock, or sheen, and fancied he saw a man, standing on a burrow i.e., a bank of earth remaining round the unclosed tinpit , and went towards him in order to inquire the ' ' object of hi.s search; but 10! the appearance - was vanished - he passed o obliquely. It appeared again and again several times. At l€ngth the good min supposed this was the - - sentry of some smugglers, who are accustom- - ed to hide their contraband goods in such - places, and returned to satisfy himself; when. cn listening very attentively at the edge of the pit, he heard a groan so often repeated as to induce him to get assistance and des- cend the pit, at the bottom of which, many - yards - perhaps fifty or more - from the surface, the first-mentioned unfortunate man Charlie Drennan (left) and B. Hines (centre) receive hearty congratulations from had lain about seven days in dreadful antici- Fred Pentney, master mechanic at Creight. on Mine, cn a S50.OO Svggeston Plan award pation of slow-approaching death, as his iecently issued to them.
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